War Poems - Page 3

41. Lest We Forget

• By Iola J Zaan
• Published by Family Friend Poems November 15, 2023 with permission of the Author.

On barren land on western field
Where only sadness war can yield
On battle sites where none had grown
In fact the bravest seeds were sewn

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42. The Man He Killed

Famous Poem

• By Thomas Hardy

Had he and I but met
By some old ancient inn,
We should have set us down to wet
Right many a nipperkin!

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43. To The War Returning

• By May Fenn
• Published by Family Friend Poems December 2018 with permission of the Author.

How blue are the eyes of my darling
And warm are her lips ruby red.
How white are her arms of enchantment
That beckon me into her bed.

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44. Listen

• By Moshe Sonnheim
• Published by Family Friend Poems October 2020 with permission of the Author.

Listen

Listen to the distant drums.
Listen to the bugles calls.

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45. Beat! Beat! Drums!

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• By Walt Whitman

Beat! beat! drums!—blow! bugles! blow!
Through the windows—through doors—burst like a ruthless force,
Into the solemn church, and scatter the congregation,
Into the school where the scholar is studying,

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46. The Star-Spangled Banner

Famous Poem

• By Francis Scott Key

O say can you see, by the dawn’s early light,
What so proudly we hail’d at the twilight’s last gleaming,
Whose broad stripes and bright stars through the perilous fight
O’er the ramparts we watch’d were so gallantly streaming?

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